Job 23
1 And Job made answer and said,
ヨブこたへて曰く
2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
我は今日にても尚つぶやきて服せず わが禍災はわが嘆息よりも重し
3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
ねがはくは神をたづねて何處にか遇まつるを知り其御座に參いたらんことを
4 I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
我この愁訴をその御前に陳べ口を極めて辨論はん
5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.
我その我に答へ給ふ言を知り また其われに言たまふ所を了らん
6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
かれ大なる能をもて我と爭ひたまはんや 然らじ反つて我を眷みたまふべし
7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
彼處にては正義人かれと辨爭ふことを得 斯せば我を鞫く者の手を永く免かるべし
8 See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;
しかるに我東に往くも彼いまさず 西に往くも亦見たてまつらず
9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.
北に工作きたまへども遇まつらず 南に隱れ居たまへば望むべからず
10 For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
わが平生の道は彼知りたまふ 彼われを試みたまはば我は金のごとくして出きたらん
11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
わが足は彼の歩履に堅く隨へり 我はかれの道を守りて離れざりき
12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
我はかれの唇の命令に違はず 我が法よりも彼の口の言語を重ぜり
13 But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
かれは一に居る者にまします 誰か能かれをして意を變しめん 彼はその心に慾する所をかならず爲たまふ
14 For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.
然ば我に向ひて定めし事を必らず成就たまはん 是のごとき事を多く彼は爲たまふなり
15 For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.
是故に我かれの前に慄ふ 我考ふれば彼を懼る
16 For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.
神わが心を弱くならしめ 全能者われをして懼れしめたまふ
17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
かく我は暗の來らぬ先わが面を黒暗の覆ふ前に打絶れざりき
